Nom
CLAUDE-GAUDILLAT
Prénom
Valérie

  • Titre
    Professor
  • Head of Msc Business Strategy & Consulting
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Valérie CLAUDE-GAUDILLAT

Department

Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation

Teaching areas

Domaine d’enseignement
Strategy
Innovation Management

Research areas

Domaine de recherche
Business Strategy and International Management
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Skills

Strategy Innovation Management Innovation Management

Biography

Biographie

Valerie Claude-Gaudillat is Professor at Audencia.  She teaches Strategy and Management of Innovation and was the Director of SciencesCom and Director of Audencia MBA&IMM programmes. She is a regular visiting professor at Coppead (Brazil).  Prior to joining Audencia, Valerie was an associate professor at Skema and a consultant for Capgemini in Paris.

Valerie holds a PhD in Strategy and an MBA which she completed at HEC Paris, France. Her current research interests focus on market entry and the development modes of firms.

Her research has been published in international journals and is regularly presented at international conferences. She received the Bentley College and Copenhagen Business School Award at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver in 2002. She was a visiting doctoral student at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and Strategic Management Society (SMS). She has been the general secretary and treasurer of the Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS).

Diplomas

Doctorate

HEC Paris, Paris (2006)

DEA, Business administration, Strategy

HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas (1997)

HEC MBA Program

HEC Paris, Paris (1996)

Experiences

Head of Msc Business Strategy & Consulting

Audencia Business School, Nantes Since 2024

Head of Consulting Major

Audencia Business School, Nantes 2024 - 2024

Director of the Institute for Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship

Audencia Business School 2015 - 2020

Director of SciencesCom

Audencia Business School, Nantes 2011 - 2015

Director of MBA & IMM programmes

Audencia Business School, Nantes 2006 - 2011

Strategy Professor

CERAM Sophia Antipolis 2003 - 2005

Consultant

Capgemini, Paris 1990 - 1997

French Teacher

1989 - 1989

Visiting out

Haas School of Business, : Visiting Researcher

2009 - 2018

COPPEAD, : Visiting Professor

Publications

Scientific activities

Reviewer for an academic journal

Reviewing Annual Conference AOM 2022
M@n@gement 2019

Member of the board of directors of an academic association

Association Internationale de Management Stratégique 2006

Awards and honors

Research contract: Observatoire Européen 2015 des intermédiaires en Assurance, 2015
Winner of the Bentley College/Copenhagen Business School Best Student Paper Award, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver, August 2002, 2002
Scholarship of the HEC Foundation for ‘Excellence in doctoral studies’, 2000

Doctoral supervision